stepping away the united states itself is picking a new side and that possibility cannot be. uninvestigated ms could tell she meant she time you mentioned timing there in reference to the leave date of general petraeus but do you think there is any other significance in the when the timing of these attacks is happening on afghan officials they were assassinated just as the u.s. hands over power to local forces in parts of the country what do you think the taliban is trying to achieve. well you know i don't have insight into what they're trying to achieve certainly they would like to have their country back and they would probably like to have you know take back control of the country as they had if you remember before we invaded we worked closely united states work closely with the taliban we were working deals for for oil we were you know friendly with them had diplomatic relations with the taliban up until basically up until nine eleven and

shortly thereafter so you know we can work with the taliban i think the writing on the wall is that if we leave afghanistan the taliban is going to be in charge and i think another thing to look at graphically is the power vacuum is being created in some respects or in the south along the iran border there could be a manufactured justification for the united states to put troops there and that would actually support some other things that are happening in the region of the iran well let's talk more about american policy in the region the white house and the pentagon well they don't actually even seem to be seeing eye to eye on how files u.s. troops should be withdrawing from afghanistan do you think that the killings approve if you live the military may actually be right to want to keep nato forces on the ground longer. well you could interpret it that way but i have a feeling looking at what normally happens when you know occupying forces leave is

there is a new adjustment in who's in charge and so in some ways this is pretty predictable . the alternative as you might propose it would be well american forces could stay there if that's the case then and means we're going to remain there forever and ever because at some point we must leave we've actually created in part the power vacuum so we have certainly created and abetted the corruption that goes on in afghanistan certainly. you know since we've been there you know we paid people we have facilitated whether we intended to or not we facilitated the regrowth of the opium trade lots and lots of money there so you know we haven't done afghanistan any favors ok you mentioned the power vacuum you mentioned corruption there's talk about the political situation inside afghanistan how much power and influence do you think president karzai has in the country is he really able to keep the taliban a bay on his own well he never has been i mean karzai has been an american puppet

since we put him in there december two thousand and one and it's amazing that he's actually still in place and that he is still alive but he has no credibility outside of the city of kabul i think his brother king of kandahar was actually the one who was recently killed i think he had more credibility in terms of. the afghans then then does karzai so this the killings of his brothers are killing. it is a message and we may look maybe perhaps to see karzai flee. he has no credibility he is not a leader of afghanistan he is america's in has been for over ten years ok characters ask a retired u.s. air force lieutenant colonel many thanks for speaking to us thank you for having me . now meanwhile there is a change at the top for nato in afghanistan with general david petraeus leaving to take over as director of the cia he's being replaced by general john allen who see

the gradual chance for sponsibility for security from nato troops to local forces but as jason what lab reports there's concern afghan forces are too divided illiquid and lacking in training to fend off the taliban and their reign. there's confusion on the faces of the afghan army soldiers as a firefight unfolds on the other side of the wall lucky for them this is the kabul military training center in the bullets being fired blanks the men here halfway through a ten week program and the officers don't cut the many slack when it's over the be deployed eastern province one of afghanistan's most violent corners. but we must push them hard so they can perform under pressure day by day we're making progress the afghan national army has already come a long way its ranks have swollen to about one hundred seventy thousand troops thanks to fresh waves of recruits attracted by higher wages and extra perks the soldiers insist they are all united in their desire to beat back the taliban led insurgency regardless of age or ethnicity when in the army we are old brothers and

we are all called by one name. right the call of duty has also struck a chord beyond able bodied males a first ever class of women soldiers has just graduated. and there's even a mujahedeen unit made up of hardened veterans of the anti soviet jihad this is all good news to u.s. military planners who have set a two thousand and fourteen but no need to hand over security responsibilities to the afghans the afghan army enjoys a much better reputation in the police force has even been featured in the recent movie. but is the army takes greater responsibility for security around the country there are concerns that the quality of troops may be coming at the expense of quality for starters more than eighty percent of troops are illiterate a big problem with the ability to read maps and numbers can spell the difference between life and death adding to the woes are widespread drug use and desertions today roughly one in four combat soldiers quit their post critics also point out that the military leadership is made up of many rival x.

warlords who still command loyalties along regional an ethnic lines and could drive the country deeper into conflict as the u.s. begins to scale back its role as custodian this summer there are concerns that these divisions may flare up if i start you julie. the groups who control it. still has much to prove before it can still. get called. now britain's largest police force is facing one of its biggest crises as a result of the scandal at rupert murdoch's news of the world the country's most senior policeman has quit the office has become embroiled in the bribery and phone hacking allegations which have hit news corp's u.k. empire support stephen resigned after it was revealed that he hired a former news of the world executives out an advisor who was later questioned about

illicit phone tapping the ex top coffee surgical spy for the prime minister saying choosing former editor andy course than as a press postman was a march at worst decision early on sunday rebecca brooks who ran the paper was arrested as part of the investigation model is the later released on bail she's due to join rupert murdoch and his son james in. an ethical reporting methods and police bribery with what media analyst phil really says the practice of police being paid for information by the media is not likely to disappear anytime soon. this is a good example of what the police have been doing in the kind of murdoch years they've been using arrests it been leaking they've been paid for telling people when celebrities have been arrested so actually manipulating the arrests of people is actually a practice it has become in trying to in my view as a result of the kind of bribery thing so this would hardly be out of practice but i

don't think it's going to deflect the opinion i mean there are so many m.p.'s now and indeed so much of the british establishment which for so long kowtow to murdoch is now prepared to get to the bottom of this and we doubt those people who have been corrupted at different levels remember that four years ago right the police. i had these bags with i think it was eleven thousand letters about four thousand celebrities and victims of crime and all these other people they knew they were taking part investigation these bags were just left there i mean it's amazing it's remarkable that it took four years for them to do anything about this meanwhile senior police officers were wining and dining with members of the murdoch empire they were they were meeting them for drinks privately one even hired them at a thousand pounds a day to work for him so you know what does this tell us about the relationship between the police and the news corp employees well it's very very serious and if this can happen at the top of the police look at the example that gives the officers down down the lines now you could well ask you know can any organization

properly examine itself but so much is at stake that if that operation is seen to be corrupted as well i think we've got you know an even bigger problem i think so many people now are watching it including you know members of parliament select committees these are investigated bodies within the british political system they're all all eyes are on this let alone all the journalists who are looking at what's going on so i think that the ramifications of this is so big i mean you know britain is it is shaking at this each day it's headline news and people are asking who's next. brooks became the tenth person to be detained in the king and bribery probe annie machon who's a former intelligence officer for m i five believes the timing of her arrest raises a lot of questions i suppose one hundred slightly suspicious turn of mind one might think that the police taking the step at this stage. allowing her little wriggle room where she didn't have to say too much and so would have to say too much about

the police service in london as well so it's very very interesting timing the amount of information that has emerged about that into the linkage between reasons national and the police i mean it's amazing the focus has tended to be on the journalists themselves and not on the allegedly corrupt police officers who have been receiving money to provide protected information and of course it's not just about phone hacking scandal there are other practices their peers have been implicated such as the technique of painting where you triangulate someone's location using a mobile phones now the only people who really have access to that sort of information would be vetted police officers working for the counterterrorism branch of a special branch or potentially of course the saudis so where and when all this was going on is a very interesting question but it does show that there's a sort of endemic corruption and a failure of accountability and oversight as well within the police force. dreams turn to dust. about america to get ourselves ready wired twenty two thousand

when there is a green called long long way to the united states. revealing the secrets of the universe a unique wrong should observatory a sense into orbit to start the galactic objects to. the recovery of the crews the russians vulgar river killing around a hundred people they take up to several days officials say the vessel first house to be moved. and what is one of the operations most difficult stages. put the ship on an even keel was the balancing fling ruptured on sunday the next task is to search the riverbed for fifteen missing victims and then raise the boat twenty meters to the surface investigators and relatives then the definitive answers can be found as to why the ship sank but recovery crews say the work is complicated because the vessel is stuck in the silt at the bottom of the volga the ball gary

went down in just a matter of minutes with mourinho off the two hundred eight drowning one of russia's worst ever shipping designs. now a major terror plot in the mosque a region has been foiled by russian security services police have detained a group of four people from the north caucuses who were allegedly planning the attack let's get the details now from our correspondent even fortune of did do we know how serious this plan terror attack. well all the members of the group that was detained by russian special forces were originally from the north caucasus regions and they were planning an attack in crowded areas as well as the transport hubs of the moscow region now special forces found guns explosives maps and schedules of the planned attack also ole of the detained people have can fast and police other people there are believed to be linked to the

planned attack were also found now president medvedev has ordered an urgent investigation and once those who are responsible for the failed attack to be severely punished now since the start of this yeah there has been a number of terror raids and despite the fact that dozens of terrorists were killed during those operations still the potential terrorist threat remains high according to russia's interim ministry and today off true then use of this failed operation of this failed attack president underlined the situation in the region remains very towns. talking about a ten situation in the region that the number of bombings in the cuckoos recently tell us more about the codes. indeed the last twenty four hours house seen two dogs the blast that hit russia's north caucasus and the first one happened in change now two policemen were killed and seven others one says when an explosive

head to such operation in the mountainous area known as the second one happened in the republic of dagestan it was a roadside bomb detonated as a car was passing by now the explosion allowed two policemen and three others wounded all these happened in the wake of the recent terror way that was launched in the region in the republic of dagestan two days ago and now despite there has been a number of anti terror raids and the fighting against terrorism goes on still the threat remains and still the france remains and search operations continue ok and they do that many thanks for the course of all course and in the north caucuses that. for some twenty two thousand people who want to green called long street to live in america to log seem suddenly to have to their dreams of a new life with the u.s. state department claim that bin computer era and the results were no longer valid

now the story has calls for in the way the law rates insults you've got if you can report. hoping for a better life in america or from nigeria applied for the green card lottery he won or so it said in the letter that he received from the state department almost two weeks later the u.s. voided the results of the lottery for some twenty two thousand people including what i want to. under the trees when it's a good or. it's one from each year the u.s. state department grants green cards to some fifty thousand people from around the globe the lottery where the jackpot is the right to live and work in america is advertised as completely random the state department claims in this case there was a computer glitch and the results were not arbitrary a computer programming error caused more than ninety percent of the selectees to come from the first two days of the registration period the victims of the blunder

have joined in a class action suit against the u.s. state department and lost the court here has been struggling with the issue of randomness asking how could the result of the green card lottery not be random even if there had been a computer glitch as the state department claims one of the arguments is that even an era like that could produce a random result and the whole idea behind the green card lottery is that whoever you are whatever you do you can win it but this case could very well undermine that perception experts specializing in information technology say the decision of the state department as well as the court that dismissed the case defies simple logic rhonda means that if all records of all the tracks are on your cd player when you have the run you may get tracks three four and five and then you're trying to twelve that's still random the state department has brought up intricate technical

arguments to explain the blunder but thousands of its victims say they have the feeling that someone has gambled with their lives we believe that america through their eyes are. going to shut down our t.v. washington d.c. fortunately you don't need a green collar website here's a taste of what you can find right now in debts and desperate financial problems continue to terrify your we bring you expert analysis and opinion of how the scale of the problem just keeps rising. no more secrets no mistake by russian most. same chinamen private messages including intimate ones were made public. more stories making the headlines around the globe malena called in budapest ninety seven year old hong gary and man of nazi war crimes shunned border cup hero a former police count to denies being involved in the nazi cult civilian passages in the sebi adjourned world war two it was alleged

a patrol on to his took part in the murder of jews and subs in a raid by hong garry and forces in one thousand nine hundred forty two more than twelve hundred people were killed in a tourist massacre. south africa is celebrating former president nelson mandela's ninety third birthday to mark the event people around the globe also do charity work the sixty seven minutes representing every year of mandela's life an active politics millions of children also sang a special version of a happy birthday song to the eggs and the eighteenth of july is recognized by the un as mandela's day for his major contribution to the course of peace and freedom. the un's highest court has ordered to both come bertie and thailand to withdraw troops from the disputed border area around an ancient temple complex the two nations were asked to allow neutral observers to monitor the cease fire the temple

belongs to come bodie at that mosque to the surrounding is in thailand where tensions increase in the building was awarded world heritage status to final families. the lonely vigil of that masses on hubble telescope at all but has come to an end as it now gets to share the job of looking deeper into the universe than anyone has done before russia has sent up its own ali in the sky and it's called the sharpest sight in the galaxy allergies marie ivanovna was at the launch pad to seattle. this is the moment to russian space scientists have been waiting for for decades the space observatory it creeped with a cutting edge telescope a huge top and universities for ration as an enormous i will be able to see further and deeper than ever before it with the possible to observe the most mysterious the darkest and the most shadows of corners of our galaxy and other galaxies as well and stars even to be able to observe black holes and shed light on their dark

nature the telescope is just ten meters long but please don't judge by the size here once read a strong is in space a sun tan that will synchronize with the radio antennas all of those signals will become bind and that will create an effect of one huge telescope with a dish thirty times bigger than the us diameter and these few to know most i would be able to provide detailed images detailed pictures of the universe with a resolution a thousand times shop with and america's. well i'll let you enjoy the moment. but i'm going to stick really well what is going to happen it's not going to fall

out tony but many of us thought it was connected to the small center here and some other time would be needed to know for the flower like a telescope that i know strong to unfold it's going to somebody else and make everything ready to work and hopefully within a month old two we will receive the first images of the universe regional t.v. reporter and from baikonur. losses written off they witnessed the launch of brushes . spaces that victory in afghanistan i would less than a year before the next presidential election in russia vote is already coming up with their road ideas of how to support a potential candidate and here's one of the more extraordinary ones an online campaign. young women sit back at the met putin by ripping off the planes a group calling itself the putin army is behind the move girls are invited to send in video of themselves trekking all with an i pad two promise for the women similar

sounds of becoming something other dish made in russia last year students were taught me the best to pose for whom she's cool and expressing their love for the probably yeah. i'm a bit specious now occasionally we go behind the path to sample the tough life in russia's prisons but let's get the business news fast with dimitri. those. little pellets the international sanctions says to do things they simply rose in july in the only deterrence. this little introductions by the russian designers to the most beautiful just cities of central russia. this is a little unfair children's function should slow the sights of presiding over the rest of the. russian president feels this is.

former boss of b.p.'s considering a bid for two major russian oil firms top story in business see this up is going to cause people close to tony hayward saying he's interested in both rule sniffed and of course one of many in the course of a looks at how likely such a deal would be. tony hayward have been looking. ever since our company on the london stock exchange last month they raised over two billion dollars which could hardly fund the acquisition of russian oil producers they have to have worth around twelve billion dollars this takes a question from russian driving where you have to send those holding company cases the number of the companies have made an official statement but analysts we've spoken to believe that such a deal could be possible if they has repeatedly said that it has no interest in

selling. but as of the say the price being talked about is good enough to make a if they take it seriously especially since all companies i know it's poor business at the same time envious oil and natural gas corp has been in talks with passion if ever to merge the two companies and by its twenty five percent stake both whoever ends up getting these assets one thing is for sure and that is that they will be getting access to one of the biggest oil fields to russia. and russia and for the largest oil producer to continue its international expansion the company has agreed to buy a forty five percent stake in an exploration project in the zone for us the area covers around fifty thousand square kilometers and holds over five hundred million barrels of oil equivalent sources close to the deal say he could pay up to one billion dollars for the state. of the markets now european stocks are extending last week's losses as the stress test results have shown lenders may have to raise

additional cash bank as a leading downside rally both in london and in the majors a full in suit crude. also showing a similar picture with a decline in crude b.o.t.s. is down more than one percent my six zero point nine percent and this is awaiting for this week's e.u. summit of which the leaders we once again try and find solutions of the. debt problem to move to some of the stocks most blue chips are trading in the red rose they have down one point four percent banking stocks also down the e.c.b. we're down one percent and a quarter despite support from positive financial results and among miners probably metals once again right up four percent as investors are looking for safe haven in the gold related assets we will be back in fifteen minutes with an update next with that.

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economy in the report. itself. this is the taliban said something and found officials claiming responsibility for more high ranking killing this comes of nato against the hyundai of a controlled the country's puppets and that befalls is facing huge question marks a. crisis engulfing rupert murdoch's media empire spread to the british police because she's may senior officer say for his link to a form that the wall paid her exact. cordell and the fire. and rust and curing people through for will a major terror plot the

a moscow police arrested a group of people from the north caucuses who were allegedly planning an attack on crowded their areas and made to child support hall. style russia's prisons renowned for being rough on their own mates and that now the jail systems in the don't write for reform. but. any complaints. to the. pulse of life for the sake of my wife and kids. are going to statistics one out of every four men in russia has served time in prison currently nearly nine hundred found inmates serving time in prison colony most of them have committed serious crimes. see a mix of the old penitentiary system and then you. initially the russian penal

system had inherited the legacy of stalin's notorious killers. but now it is going through a period differ from the likes of which have never been seen before. everyone here has to decide whether or not they're going to change their ways and go and. see that it's coming what kind of changes are already in place behind the barbed wire and will modernization benefit both the inmates prison staff. court convicted coverly owner of masterminding the murder of a fellow businessman and sentenced him to seventeen years he has spent several months in one of moscow's investigative isolation wards now pawel is due to be transferred to a prison colony. on face the world. spreading.